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US Senator to Tajikistan President: End Your Government’s Use of Transnational Repression

Posted byby Marie Corrie
December 6, 2023
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2 min

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently sent a letter to the President of Tajikistan, Emomali...

Posted inin Africa
Internal Security

Rights violations worsen South Sudan political environment

Posted byby Devlin McAllister
October 7, 2023
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4 min

South Sudan’s political journey out of transition government could be harmed by a continual rights violation including repression of the media. And as the...

Posted inin Opinion
Politics

Don’t Recognize the Taliban Government

Posted byby Marie Corrie
August 18, 2023
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7 min

Two years after taking Kabul, the Taliban are consolidating their control of Afghanistan even as they remain mostly shunned by the rest of the...

Posted inin Asia
Internal Security

The Tyranny of Fear in Tajikistan

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
August 16, 2023
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8 min

On July 4, a group of 10 U.N. experts – including special rapporteurs whose mandates cover human rights defenders, religious freedom, judges and lawyers,...

Posted inin Counter Terrorism
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Civil Society Engagement with the United Nations on Counterterrorism–A Perilous, Uphill Challenge

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
August 9, 2023
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8 min

Seventeen years after the adoption of the UN General Assembly’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (GCTS), the United Nations negotiated the eighth biennial GCTS review, which...

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Why are over 70% of North Korean defectors female?

Posted byby Marie Corrie
August 7, 2023
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4 min

Every day, news about North Korea is broadcast to the world ― updates on ballistic missile launches, nuclear threats and spy satellites. While many...

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U.N chief calls for ‘surge in diplomacy’ to denuclearize Korean Peninsula

Posted byby Marie Corrie
July 28, 2023
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2 min

The U.N. chief hailed the Korean War armistice as the “foundation” of peace on the Korean Peninsula on the 70th anniversary of its signing...

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Tajikistan’s Pamiris: Persecuted, disappeared, and forgotten by the world

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
July 21, 2023
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4 min

Imagine being a member of a little-known, persecuted minority attempting to flee your homeland, where you are at risk of being locked up or...

Posted inin Counter Terrorism
World

The Cost of Consensus in the Eighth Review of U.N Global Counterterrorism Strategy

Posted byby Marie Corrie
July 20, 2023
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4 min

On 22 June, member states prioritized consensus adoption of the United Nations’ (UN) eighth biennial Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy review resolution over furthering the promotion...

Posted inin Europe
News

Criminal Complaint Against Russian Military Filed In Germany

Posted byby Marc Dubois
July 10, 2023
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3 min

End of June 2023, two human rights organizations filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office on behalf of a Ukrainian...